“Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad I admit to not having read this one in high school, but after seeing King Kong and being reminded of it yet again in another work of fiction, I finally gave it a read. … Read More »Heart of Darkness
“The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan Anyone who knows me very well, knows that I’m a big fan of Carl Sagan. I’ve read all his non-fiction books, most of them while I was still in high school. If you never… Read More »The Demon-Haunted World
“The Blind Watchmaker” by Richard Dawkins
It’s the only way to say it. The damn thing won’t let me update a page that I create. I’m not talking about a post, I’m talking about a page on my site. So I can’t create a book list… Read More »WordPress sucks!
“Life as We Do Not Know It” by Peter Ward. Ward’s writing sytle is approachable if not a tad bit too self absorbed. He has some valid ideas on classifying non-Earth related life, should it ever be found or created… Read More »Life as We Do Not Know It
Are forces set in motion today to ensure that in the future there is but one Operating System? Microsoft is slowly getting people off Win32 and onto .Net CLR managed code. They very cleverly made the CLR an open standard.… Read More »One Possible Future
I’ve been messing with RADRAILS at work and I could not get the db connection to work. A little research led me to this solution. (This is for Ubuntu 5.10) Using RADRAILS with MySql $ sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf # skip-networking… Read More »RADRAILS Data Connection
This is a test post using BloGtk, a Gtk based Blogger tool.
This weekend I purchased a few digital indulgances that I thought might help my WIfe and I manage our kids on our upcoming Disney Cruise vacation. The main problem is that we have to fly all day to get to… Read More »Kids these days, don’t know how good they have it.
I was watching the local news channel weather report last night and I had a Sci-Fi Moment. She started the weather cast with a zooming in of a rotating planet that just spun around in place for a few seconds. … Read More »A Sci-Fi Moment